Dear Friends, When heavy rains and mudslides devastated Sierra Leone in August, killing more than 1,000 people, most relief efforts ignored the people who are so often forgotten — prisoners. But Lahai Kargbo, the young director of Crossroads Sierra Leone, was...
Vinson found himself in prison again, convicted of driving while intoxicated—his sixth DWI offense. This time, he was sentenced to twenty years. Looking back on this cycle throughout his life—getting arrested, going to prison, being released and then...
See full art piece below At Crossroads, every month we receive dozens of pieces of artwork from prisoners all across the country. We share this art in the Crossroads Journal of the Arts, on our Facebook page and in our Prisoner Art Project Gallery. We recently...
Art by Cesar, a Crossroads student in Texas Michael grew up in Cairo, Egypt, in a predominantly Islamic family. Exposure to both Islamic and Christian culture left him confused, and he sought answers by turning to drugs at the age of twelve. By sixteen, he was fully...
Chris Hoke, jail chaplain and author of the book Wanted, recently came to Crossroads Prison Ministries with his friend Neaner Garcia. Chris and Neaners exchanged letters for years while Neaners was in solitary confinement. They are now co-directors of Underground...
